Illustration from Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer
Warwick Goble 1863-1943 British Illustrator

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Medieval tragedy & intrigue for With the Rapunzel-like 'Fair Rosamund' (1916, priv.coll) we return to Rosamund Clifford, mistress of Henry II, kept in a tower surrounded by a maze, a tale which fascinated Chaucer, Tennyson, Swinburne, Rossetti & Burne-Jones.

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There, I drew for you.
I indulged your stupid.
Now shut up, or I am getting out the Vodka and Chaucer.
I will Bore your ass to sleep, fucking brain.
And yea, Thats pretty accurate me, (Cept the nightie, This Bitch sleeps Skyclad)

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Honeysuckle (woodbine) is the birth flower for June, along with the rose. Twining around the front door it will protect your house from harm, & placed in a vase it will attract money. To Chaucer “wodebyne” symbolised steadfastness in love. Img: Cicely Barker

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Something different for a Sunday! This was my senior thesis from yeeaars back, kind of a mash-up between Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and The Dover Boys. It has a very "early 2000s" illustration look to it, I know, haha.

Sadly the raws are on some forgotten Zip disk somewhere

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9 Mar 1616: Francis Beaumont, playwright, interred in Abbey near &
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"Prehistoric Stone Age" cave paintings found in Chaucer France

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Lovely morning yr 3 folktales workshop on ‘stealing the moon’ - my retelling of ‘raking the moon’ trope, turned into a Trickster Jack tale, with a sprinkling of Chaucer-style character fable for good measure! Here’s some wonderful pictures inspired by the story...

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In 1809, stung by criticisms of his work and angered by being double-crossed out of a potentially lucrative commission of Chaucer illustrations, decided to put on his own art exhibition.

It was a colossal failure. 1/x

https://t.co/xNM6yPSorv

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Unlike French chivalric romances (and Chaucer), which opened with the first bloom of spring, English romances often took place around Christmas.

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The River Neckinger swirls with stories. Is it named for a water spirit or the noose that hung here? Did Cnut change its course in 1016? Chaucer's pilgrims crossed it. Dickens took Twist to Jacob's Island, the rookery in the marsh where its waters met the Thames

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"Yes, they even banned The Canterbury Tales." 3/3/2017 https://t.co/RgcbLNPMyh
Some Chaucer in the collections here (fully digitized) Takamiya MS 32 https://t.co/LKz7eG0SL5 Takamiya MS 24 https://t.co/ixTnrPMwmq

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The Metamorphoses by Ovid For over two thousand years, readers have delighted in Ovid's playful eloquence; his influence on other writers has ranged from Dante and Chaucer to Shakespeare and Milton.

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Honeysuckle (woodbine) is the birth flower for June, along with the rose. Twining around the front door it will protect your house from harm, & put into a vase it will attract money. To Chaucer “wodebyne” symbolised steadfastness in love. Image: Cicely Barker

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Hi! I make semi-regular diary comics with occasional guest appearances by Chaucer, Bruce the Horse, my cat, my kid, Switzerland, and pigeons.

Get books and postcards here! https://t.co/x5DyQJSx8E

See some art here!
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'She was fair as is the rose in May.' - Geoffrey Chaucer

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And lastly today, here is the FCBD story that started my style of Mouse Guard short folktales. Inspired by Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale & 's Tale of the Three Brothers here is The Wise Weaver: https://t.co/SmG2vUkPmz

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Another of Chaucer’s ”good” women... https://t.co/JwdAxBq7j5

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Happy ! Did you know Both Elizabeth & William Gaskell were interested in the way in which the Lancashire dialect had its roots in Anglo-Saxon & in its usage by authors such as Shakespeare and Chaucer? Find out more in our blog https://t.co/NKqZRR2fAE

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This week for (late) we present some ornate initials from Geoffrey Chaucer’s A.B.C. called La Prierie de Nostre Dame, printed in San Francisco by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem in an edition of 1000 copies in 1967. Learn more here: https://t.co/4jb5RmQgme

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